Not that it'll help me write the story since I still won't have read it, but--what's the story behind that Elseworld? I've seen it referenced before and I don't know anything about it...
Well, I want to write this story with the kids of Gotham (Steph, Tim, Jason, maybe even Kon) in a setting where superheroes are fictional. The problem is, I can't make it sound like anything but a crappy, young adult short story. *Whimper* I want to write a good story, but this one isn't doing it right.
And I can see there can be a problem, seeing how superheroes' existence is what mostly defines these characters. What is your basic idea? I'm thinking that the bat-kids are not really meta, so they still could very probably put on their thights and fight crime. Of course, they would no have superheroes around as inspiration.
Reading stories where superheroes lose their powers might help a bit; the problem is most of those center on said characters trying to recover said powers. In fact, hey, I remember. Wasn't there a DC issue where metas were destroyed or something like that, and non superpowered heroes (Night, Arrow ...) were the ones fighting?
Clark Kent was hiding, I remember, because he feared the knowledge of him being alive would cause more deaths ... I probably saw it during 2006 first semester at victoria_wayne's journal
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Hm, I'm not sure whether or not I really want them to do the superhero thing. I want them to think about it, at any rate. But mostly, I want those characters with those personalities, but I want to see them getting completely messed up by not having superheroing as an option.
Is this the "Ribbons and Rot" story you mentioned? Maybe not, since you mentioned you had already started that one...
So you want to write an AU where they're just "normal" kids in school together? Wow...it would be a real challenge to translate their relationships into real-life terms (would Kon have two daddies who had separated?)...but it would be fascinating to see!
Oooh, and Cass as an autistic kid...hmmm...
I'd love to see this although I agree it sounds really hard to pull off! But for folks in the know I think it could be really subtle--like, something that looks like a "normal" young adult story but isn't...
Okay, I've had this bunny for awhile. An AU where Jonathan dies when Clark is six. Martha loses the farm and gets a job as a Wayne family servant. Clark grows up in the shadows of Wayne Manor.
The thing I love about this bunny is the wide variation you can get by change the verse it's in. The thing that turns me off it is the nessity of Jonathan's death. In my mind if Pa lived they would never leave Smallville.
One S/B AU I would *really* love to see is... what if Kala Jor-El, not Kal-El, had come to Earth as a baby? How would that have changed the DC universe, and the Clark/Lois, Superman/Luthor and the Superman/Batman dynamics in particular? How would she have been different from the Kal we know and love?
You know, I think medie is working on a sprawling version of almost exactly that! I'll keep an eye out for more of it...
It really would be fascinating, wouldn't it? I'd love to see Lois and Kala as friends or even as catty rival co-workers. It seems a much more realistic dynamic than lovers, somehow. And Kala/Lex...hmmm, interesting.
ooh, that sounds awesome! I was thinking more along the lines of comicverse, though- watching Ollie flirt with Kala would be a hoot! And Dick would develop *such* a case of heroine-worship... I doubt Selina would be very pleased, though... *runs away from the plotbunnies*
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And I can see there can be a problem, seeing how superheroes' existence is what mostly defines these characters. What is your basic idea? I'm thinking that the bat-kids are not really meta, so they still could very probably put on their thights and fight crime. Of course, they would no have superheroes around as inspiration.
Reading stories where superheroes lose their powers might help a bit; the problem is most of those center on said characters trying to recover said powers. In fact, hey, I remember. Wasn't there a DC issue where metas were destroyed or something like that, and non superpowered heroes (Night, Arrow ...) were the ones fighting?
Clark Kent was hiding, I remember, because he feared the knowledge of him being alive would cause more deaths ... I probably saw it during 2006 first semester at victoria_wayne's journal ( ... )
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So you want to write an AU where they're just "normal" kids in school together? Wow...it would be a real challenge to translate their relationships into real-life terms (would Kon have two daddies who had separated?)...but it would be fascinating to see!
Oooh, and Cass as an autistic kid...hmmm...
I'd love to see this although I agree it sounds really hard to pull off! But for folks in the know I think it could be really subtle--like, something that looks like a "normal" young adult story but isn't...
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LOL, that would make Clark Rachel from the Begins movie! That makes it all the better...
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Yeah, when I've thought about it it does make a huge difference which version of Bruce and Clark you've got. Really interesting. *continues musing*
And I agree they'd never leave Smallville if Jonathan were alive...
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It really would be fascinating, wouldn't it? I'd love to see Lois and Kala as friends or even as catty rival co-workers. It seems a much more realistic dynamic than lovers, somehow. And Kala/Lex...hmmm, interesting.
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